Photos of the Week: December 26 2016 -January 1st, 2017

1of19Del Seymour, founder of a job readiness program called Code Tenderloin, walks ahead of the group on the Tenderloin Walking Tour on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle

2of19Bart Admonius looks at the movement of Ned Kahn's Negev Wheel at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, December 25, 2016. ThePhoto: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle

3of19Aida Carpenter (left) during church service at Beth Eden Baptist Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, November 27, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

4of19Harrison Dimmig and Pitichoke Chulapamornsri, center, sit on the top deck of the San Francisco to Alameda ferry Dec. 22, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle

5of19Bartender Bob Dougherty (left) and longtime customer Lewis Parker (right) watch televsion at Aunt Charlie's, a historic bar for the LGBTQ community, in the Tenderloin district, in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, November 30, 2016.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

6of19Pac Rucker works at Dig Deep Farms' urban farm on 164th Avenue in San Leandro, Calif., on Thursday, December 22, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

7of19Rickey Trombetta Stancliff, CEO of Trombetta Family Wines and the current president of the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance, is seen at the Gap's Crown Vineyard in Pengrove, California, on Tuesday December 27, 2016.Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle

8of19Homeless man Sam Armelin (left) takes a break near 950 Market Street, where a new hotel and condo is slated to be built, in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

9of19Conan Neutron plays his guitar in warehouse where his band rents a space in West Oakland on Friday, December 30, 2016.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle

10of19Lou Briasco is seen through the window of his store Michael Bruno Luggage as he sits for a portrait in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. The store is closing after 34 years.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

11of19Chris Lawson owner of the Seaward waits for the word to resume fishing for crab while docked in the Spud Point Harbor, as seen on Thursday December 29, 2016, in Bodega Bay, California. Crab fisherman along the coast from Bodega Bay to the Canadian border are holding a strike over the price of crab they are being offered from buyers.Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle

13of19Rabbi Peretz Mochkin lights the wooden menorah at Washington Square park on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. On Christmas Day, a six-foot-tall 100-pound brass menorah was stolen from the park. In Massachusetts, Yochanon Bogart, a menorah maker, heard about the news and sent a six-foot-tall wooden menorah. To honor the new menorah and generosity of the stranger, Mochkin lit the menorah on sundown to celebrate the eighth and final day of Hanukkah.Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle

14of19Brainwash cafe and laundromat owner Jeff Zalles pours a coffee drink for a customer in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Owner Jeff Zalles has noticed a dramatic drop in business ever since a large residential development currently under construction broke ground next door to the Brainwash and is concerned he may have to shut down.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

15of19Sam DeRespini, 3, gets excited as he interacts with otters at the Oakland Zoo on Friday, December 30, 2016.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle

16of19Buck Chavez, a PE teacher at San Geronimo Valley School, plays music and dances along with his students (left rot right) Eva Thomas, Beth Brisson, Kaitlyn Signor, and Grace Chavez (Buck's daughter) during a PE class on December 14, 2016 in San Geronimo, Calif.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle

17of19The ice rink near the Ferry Building on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. Temperatures in the Bay Area could drop to record lows next week.Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle

18of19Jake Reisdorf lifts one of the frames filled with honey produced by his hive of Italian honey bees on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 in Carmel , California. Carmel eighth-grader Jake Reisdorf is a self-described ?average 14-year-old who likes honey bees.? But he?s also an entrepreneur, having turned that interest into Carmel Honey Company, which supplies area markets, cheese shops and even BelCampo Meat Company in San Francisco. He?s the chief beekeeper who speaks on the topic to students, business owners, or at conferences around the country, and also donates to bee research and educationPhoto: Paul Kuroda, Special to The Chronicle

19of19A pedestrian walks past the new St. Francis fireboat docked at Fire Station 35 at Pier 22 1/2 Dec. 22, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle

From ice skating under blue skies to feeling the hungry during the holidays and quiet moments in the tenderloin, Chronicle photographers took us all over the Bay Area this week in their storytelling. Rooftop gardens, beekeepers, dancing and more, this week’s photos brings in the New Year with a lot of joy and beauty.

Kat Duncan is a picture editor, photographer and videographer at the San Francisco Chronicle where she has been working since June 2015. Before joining The Chronicle, she was a Visuals Editor, staff photographer and book reviewer for newspapers in Utah, Texas, Kansas, Massachusetts and New York. Originally from Los Angeles, she is a graduate of University of California Irvine and Boston University.